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How
and when this force is to be employed will be a matter for your duly appointed
commander to determine according to circumstances, but what it is your task to
provide, that I have put down in my resolution. If, men of Athens, you first provide the funds which I
name and then equip the whole force complete, men, ships and cavalry, binding
them legally to serve for the duration of the war, and if you make yourselves
the stewards and administrators of the funds, looking to your general for an
account of his operations, then you will no longer be for ever debating the same
question and never making any progress.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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